Introduction to First Mile Access Technologies

Date: Feb 24, 2004 By Ashwin Gumaste, Tony Antony. Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Cisco Press.
From a conglomeration of semiconductor and telecommunication (telco) services to application-specific services such as optical and wireless networking, the telco industry has evolved dramatically over this time, adding newer products to the generic telco portfolio and emerging as a huge industry spread over large geographic areas and facilitating the transfer of both small and large amounts of information. This transfer of information between end users was propelled by the need to communicate over long distances and created the need for a telco infrastructure. This transfer of information also drove the information technology (IT) revolution.

Introducing IP Quality of Service

From a conglomeration of semiconductor and telecommunication (telco) services to application-specific services such as optical and wireless networking, the telco industry has evolved dramatically over this time, adding newer products to the generic telco portfolio and emerging as a huge industry spread over large geographic areas and facilitating the transfer of both small and large amounts of information. This transfer of information between end users was propelled by the need to communicate over long distances and created the need for a telco infrastructure. This transfer of information also drove the information technology (IT) revolution

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